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M&A Seen Surging Among Green-Technology Firms

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Katharina Bart

March 29, 2011 4:18 p.m. ET

ZURICH—Mergers and acquisitions in the green-technology sector could surge by up to 50% against a backdrop of heightened public scrutiny of nuclear-power plants following the Japan accident, specialist investment-banking boutique Greentech Capital Advisors forecasts.

Solar energy and wind installations are among the technologies Greentech pegs as being the most promising, pointing to recent moves by companies such as Siemens AG ,...